Happy New Year!!!

[Ped]

Happy New Year to all of you! :)

As for motorcycle riding 2019 was a good year for me. I logged a total 
of 13.500 km  (8.400 miles). A trip to Luxembourg in May, northern Italy 
in July and the Harz (Germany) in August - not to mention a lot of 
shorter or longer domestic trips here in DK. The odometer now reads 
223.000 km (138.600 miles) and she's still going strong - mostly. When 
she is ridden on a weekly basis she runs as smooth as ever, although the 
amount of power uphill is not what it used to be. But if she has been 
sitting in the garage for weeks or months at the time, the compression 
in the cylinders is so low that it can take quite a while to get her 
fired up ;)

Had the weather not been so unpredictable I could have logged even more 
km's. I had planned a trip to southern France in June, but there was a 
long period of time in the early summer where heavy and violent squall 
lines dropped 40-80 mm of rain or golf ball size of hail in a couple of 
hours, ripping trees up by their roots, flooding streets, camp sites 
etc. at least every second day somewhere in western Europe. I have tried 
once to have my tent blown away in the middle of the night and I'm 
simply getting too old for that s... - ah, sort of thing... ;)

Winter maintenance includes some electrical work (the warning blinker 
tends to start if she is left outside in the rain) as well as removal of 
the Garmin cradle. I'm also going to take the front apart and have a 
look at the steering head bearings. She feels kind of stiff if she 
hasn't been out for a while. Maybe I'll have to have the bearing 
replaced. Oil change etc. was done in the autumn, chain and sprockets 
are in good condition, tires also, so there is not so much to do.

Have a very Happy New Year and ride safe :)

Ped
'96 "Black Stealth" GPZ
Denmark


------ Original Meddelelse ------
Fra: "Charles Scappaticci" <scapco at ecentral.com>
Til: "ped" <gpz1100abs at gmail.com>
Sendt: 01-01-2020 04:26:31
Emne: Happy New Year!!!

>I was thinking that I've been on this list for over 20 years now and sure
>met a lot of very nice people I now call friends.
>
>I'm coming up on 24 years of owning my GPZ and though technology has mostly
>passed it by, I still enjoy it and am working to keep it going for the
>foreseeable future.  This winter I will treat it to a thorough carb clean
>and have some other minor work planned for it.  I'm also working on
>acquiring a complete set of body work so I can have a fresh set of bodywork
>painted for it.  Just need an upper fairing and the small piece that goes
>above the tail light to have them all. I was able to obtain a set of the
>original tank decals which haven't been available for a long time and I
>recently cataloged my GPZ parts inventory so I can keep it looking and
>running good for a long time to come.
>
>Anyway, a very Happy New Year to you all and many safe travels wherever and
>whatever you ride!
>
>Regards,
>
>Charles S.
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